Prince Andrew will play key role in wedding of daughter Princess Beatrice
Princess Beatrice has a lot of celebrities BFFs including Karlie Kloss and Ellie Goulding, but who is she picking for her bridal party?
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Now that Princess Beatrice has a wedding date set she must now choose who she wants as bridesmaids.
It will be a particularly difficult choice for the princess who has a large circle of high profile friends.
Supermodel Karlie Kloss is one of the frontrunners.
The pair have holidayed together in Jordan in 2018 and Beatrice was one of the first people Kloss told about her engagement to Josh Kushner, showing her friend’s excitement on Instagram.
Beatrice was also a guest at her wedding.
Ellie Goulding is another strong choice. The singer also went with Beatrice and Kloss to Jordan in 2018 and in December the royal called Goulding her “dearest friend” on the BBC
Holly Branson is another person who Beatrice is very close with.
Branson says Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi are “made for each other”.
In addition, Beatrice has been close to models Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne since she was a child.
She may also select Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend, Cressida Bonas, who she has been friends with for years before she dated Beatrice’s cousin.
However, given the spotlight on certain members of the royal family of late she may opt against giving Bonas a prominent role.
Expect sister Princess Eugenie to feature in the wedding of her older sister.
ANDREW TO WALK BEATRICE DOWN AISLE
Prince Andrew will walk his daughter Princess Beatrice down the aisle at her wedding to Italian property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
A royal source confirmed to News Corp Australia that the Duke of York would take part in the wedding.
A low key wedding date has been set for the much anticipated royal nuptials.
The Queen announced at 10pm Australian time on Friday that the wedding will take place at The Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace, London, on May 29.
The UK spring wedding will be much more private than her sister Princess Eugenie’s wedding, which was held at Windsor Castle in 2018.
The wedding of HRH Princess Beatrice of York and
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) February 7, 2020
Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on Friday 29 May 2020 at The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.
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Prince Andrew has continued to battle the fallout from his links with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, which sparked fears he would be excluded from the wedding.
He did not attend their engagement party in December.
The wedding will not be broadcast on television like her sister’s or the Harry and Meghan extravaganza that was watched by almost 2 billion people.
Buckingham Palace announced the date in a statement, saying the Queen will offer the couple a private reception at Buckingham Palace.
“The wedding of HRH Princess Beatrice of York and Mr. Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi will take place on Friday 29th May 2020. The couple became engaged in Italy in September 2019,” the palace statement said.
“Her Majesty The Queen has kindly given permission for the ceremony to take place at The Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.
“The ceremony will be followed by a private reception, given by The Queen, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.”
Prince Beatrice, 31, and Mr Mozzi, 37, reportedly met through family and had attended the same events as far back as 2014.
He joined the royal family at their Christmas Day walk at Sandringham last month, in a public sign of the Queen’s blessing for the marriage.
The happy day has been clouded by her father’s ongoing scandal over what he knew about the activities of Epstein.
Prince Andrew has not yet been interviewed by the FBI.
He has denied having sex with Australian based woman Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was 17, despite the pair being photographed together.
The British Government this week backed down on a directive to fly the Union Jack on government buildings on Prince Andrew’s birthday, which is a right reserved for the Queen’s children.
While St James’s Palace was not used for the recent rock star style royal weddings, it does have a rich history.
Queen Victoria tied the knot to Prince Albert there in 1840, which became a love story that has dominated British culture and its architecture through the Royal Albert Hall and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Prince George, the first son of Prince William and Kate, was baptised there in 2013.
The couple have avoided a gift registry, instead asking for people to consider the work of charities including Big Change, which supports young people in education, and Cricket Builds Hope, a charity that uses the game to promote change in Rwanda.
On Friday local time Princess Eugenie, 29, posted a touching tribute on her Instagram page.
The photo showed Eugenie and Beatrice when they were little girls attending their former nanny’s wedding in 1993.
The throwback snap was accompanied by Eugenie’s claim that “Beatrice is so excited” to be marrying her fiance “Edo.”
stephen.drill@news.co.uk
Originally published as Prince Andrew will play key role in wedding of daughter Princess Beatrice